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The Boss is Watching: How Monitoring Decisions Hurt Black Workers / Costas Cavounidis, Kevin Lang, Russell Weinstein.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cavounidis, Costas.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w26319.
- NBER working paper series no. w26319
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Other Title:
- Boss is Watching
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2019.
- Summary:
- African Americans face shorter employment durations than apparently similar whites. We hypothesize that employers discriminate in either acquiring or acting on ability-relevant information. We construct a model in which firms may "monitor" workers. Monitoring black but not white workers is self-sustaining: new black hires are more likely to have been screened by a previous employer, causing firms to discriminate in monitoring. We confirm the model's prediction that the unemployment hazard is initially higher for blacks but converges to that for whites. Two additional predictions, lower lifetime incomes and longer unemployment durations for blacks, are known to be strongly empirically supported.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- September 2019.
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